InfoHesive

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InfoHesive can be used as a personal tool for project and
information management, as a means of authoring redistributable
e-books, or as a help authoring system. It has the most power in
the first mode; the latter two have some limits, such as the
inability to access external files. Overall, though, it is trivial
to turn a personal project into an eBook you can then share or
sell. Reading of the eBooks does not require the InfoHesive
product. It is also possible to lock projects and distribute
them--this makes it a useful tool for corporate policy manuals, for
example.

InfoHesive projects are built using an outliner tool. You create
a main topic and then sub-topics, along with articles: Individual
data elements. An article can be something entered directly with
the InfoHesive editor (which allows for font formatting, inline
images, tables, and hyperlinks to both external sources and other
InfoHesive articles), a link to a file on disk, or both.You can,
for example, link a file, and then add as much descriptive of
additional text as you need.

One particularly nice feature of InfoHesive is the "send to"
functionality. While it takes a small amount of work to set up
properly (and this is explained clearly in the extensive included
help), once it's done, it's very nice and fairly unique--I won't
say no other program in this category has it, but I haven't seen
it. Simply choose "Send To" and an active application, and the
contents of your article will be placed in the current document.
This makes it easy to, for example, move text from several
InfoHesive articles into a single Word document without cutting and
pasting.

InfoHesive has a lot of nice features and a clean interface,
especially considering how many options there are. I noticed only
one minor bug: Scroll bars do not go all the way to the bottom even
when you've reached the end of the page, making you unsure if
you're really at the bottom of the page. It is also a tiny bit slow
switching pages, with a 1-2 second 'loading' screen when moving
around, even on a very fast computer. These minor caveats aside, I
found InfoHesive very useful and would recommend downloading the
trial to check it out.

--Ian Harac

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